Archives for April 28, 2009

Those Capitol One commercials are funny. But, really, how does it help me that I can slap a picture of my cat on my credit card? How about if I could set my own credit limit that couldn’t be exceeded? Then the credit card companies wouldn’t be able to charge me over the limit fees. Read more →

The housing price slide is slowing these days, but it’s still a slide. That’s the bottom line in today’s data from widely watched S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. Twin Cities housing prices in February remained about 20 percent down from February last year, the data show. That’s slightly worse than the 18.6 percent average drop among Read more →